On 26 Mar, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> markw@osdl.org wrote:
>
>>Compare file sync methods with one 8k write:
>> (o_dsync unavailable)
>> open o_sync, write 6.270724
>> write, fdatasync 13.275225
>> write, fsync, 13.359847
>>
>>
> Odd. Which filesystem, which kernel? It seems fdatasync is broken and
> syncs the inode, too.
It's linux-2.6.5-rc1 with ext2 filesystems.